Lucian Ban, John Surman and Mat Maneri bring a fresh treatment — and musical chemistry — to the bare-bones folk transcriptions of the 20th-century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. This is FRESH AIR.

SARANAC LAKE — Historic Saranac Lake announced an upcoming concert by Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri titled “Transylvanian Dance” at the Left Bank Cafe. The event, which will take place from 5-7 p.m. Sept.

Note: Stacked potatoes is a substantial and filling regional dish from Transylvania. Ask 10 different Transylvanian cooks to make it and you’ll probably end up with 10 slightly different versions.

It's been six years since Mat Maneri last appeared on ECM, collaborating with singer Robin Williamson on the British traditionalist's exploratory The Iron Stone (2007); even longer since the violist ...

Neglected masterpieces aren't all that unusual (no reading public is perfect), but one that runs to almost 1,500 pages would seem hard to lose sight of. Starting in 1934, Count Miklós Bánffy strapping ...

WASHINGTON — A historic Transylvanian castle that may have once imprisoned Vlad the Impaler — likely inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula — still stands today. But what lies beneath it? Because of ...

Poor Is My Heart; Romanian Folk Dance; Lover Mine of Long Ago; Transylvanian Dance; The Enchanted Song; Harvest Moon Ballad; The Boyer's Doina; Make Me, Lord, Slim and Tall. This song appears by ...

You don’t have to visit Dracula’s castle to get a taste of Transylvania this Halloween. A 200-year-old family recipe for a popular pastry from the spooky region of Romania is being served up by a ...

The ALLIANCE OF TRANSYLVANIAN SAXONS, organized on 1 May 1895 in Cleveland as the Transylvanian Saxon Sick Benefit Society, is a national fraternal society with headquarters and 4 branches in ...

Cheese lovers, we have a new one for you. Our local Aldi is currently stocking an interesting cheese marketed just for Halloween. It's a pale yellow, firm wedge sold under the Aldi Happy Farms brand, ...